Don Young: “That affects a large, very viable section of our domestic industry and our national defense.”

We have learned firsthand that resource development and protection of the environment are not mutually exclusive goals.

It was sponsored by Congressman Debbie Dingell and initially by Congressman Don Young.

When the tribe asked Congressman Don Young to cosponsor the bill years ago, he looked me in the eye and said, so the landowners get resolved, the tribe still has to prove its case, are you sure that is what you want? I said, yes, sir, it…

Congress authorized the leasing and development program within the 1002 Area of ANWR not on a whim, but after decades of robust debate.